Question

I’m trying to serialize some objects obtained from a 3rd Party .NET Lib to an XML File.

When I Go To Definition for the object, some of the Properties of that object are marked as [XMLIgnore]

Is there any way to tell my System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer to ignore the fact that some properties have that attribute and that it should serialize everything in the object.

I could probably obtain the source and recompile it without the XMLIgnore attributes but it’d be nice if XmlSerializer had some nice override property like

XmlSerializer xmls = new XmlSerializer(
   typeof(MyObject),
   Settings.DoNotApplyXMLAttributeRules
);

Thanks in advance

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EDIT

Have tried the XmlAttributeOverrides as suggested but not having much joy.
Here’s the object definition (it’s from the FlickrAPI for a Photo)

[Serializable]
public class Photo
{
    //Some code omitted
    [XmlIgnore]
    public string LargeUrl { get; }

}

And heres the serializer code I’ve written… still doesn’t work…

XmlWriter xtw = XmlWriter.Create( Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/Data.xml") );

XmlAttributes photoAttributes = new XmlAttributes();
photoAttributes.XmlIgnore = false;

XmlAttributeOverrides photoOverrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
photoOverrides.Add(typeof(Photo), "LargeUrl", photoAttributes);

XmlSerializer xmlphoto = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Photo), photoOverrides);

Answer 1

use:

XmlAttributeOverrides

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlattributes.xmlignore.aspx

Edit: (Following the question EDIT)

the property must be public and have a getter and setter to be serialized.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/182eeyhh%28VS.85%29.aspx

((see first Note))